Harmonix Music Systems Inc.,
a Cambridge association that launched a strain video diversion disturb with “Guitar Hero” and “Rock Band,” is building a new diversion desirous by a 1940 charcterised Disney classic, “Fantasia.”

In a movie, sorcerer’s neophyte Mickey Mouse tries to conjure sorcery to a exemplary soundtrack. In a new game, “Fantasia: Music Evolved,” players will be means to use palm gestures and physique movements to cgange and remix exemplary music, as good as renouned songs from artists like Bruno Mars, Queen, Kimbra, and Fun.

“ ‘Fantasia’ is a unequivocally desirous title,” pronounced Christopher Nicholls, a game’s executive writer during Disney. “We’re doing some unequivocally fantastic things.”

The diversion is set for recover someday in 2014. It will be accessible usually for Microsoft Corp.’s arriving Xbox One
video diversion console and a Xbox 360 with Kinect motion-control technology.

Kinect, that was introduced by Microsoft in 2010, lets Xbox owners control a console with physique movements and voice commands. It has been a renouned appendage for a Xbox 360, with over 24 million units sold.

An softened chronicle of Kinect will be enclosed with each Xbox One when that console comes to marketplace after this year.

In “Fantasia: Music Evolved,” gamers turn apprentices to a magician who seeks to file their low-pitched talent. The players learn how to manipulate a stroke and character of informed songs by gesturing toward images on a screen.

For example, they can dial adult a exemplary adaptation of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” or have it played in a 1980s hard-rock style.

Other facilities let a actor change a sounds of particular instruments, like a lead or stroke guitars. Players can also use gestures to conceal a new tune onto a song.

But Harmonix orator John Drake pronounced that these enchanting powers are delicately tranquil to safeguard that a formula are easy on a ears.

“There are no green notes,” Drake said. “We’re never going to make we sound bad.”

The diversion will embody strain marks from over 25 artists, including “Levels” by AVICII, “Locked Out Of Heaven” by Bruno Mars, “Some Nights” by Fun, “Settle Down” by Kimbra, and of course, “Bohemian Rhapsody.”

And as with a company’s “Rock Band” games, a new diversion has copiousness of room for expansion.

The association expects to offer downloadable files from each low-pitched genre, so that gamers can exam their talents opposite a latest hits or dear classics.

While prior Harmonix games were recognised by association cofounders Alex Rigopulos and Eran Egozy, “Fantasia: Music Evolved” was dreamed adult by Disney. Nicholls, a pianist and lifelong fan of a Disney film, believed that Harmonix could interpret a judgment into a successful game.

“They flattering most single-handedly combined what we call strain gaming,” Nicholls said.

Helping nonmusicians make strain done Harmonix an courtesy titan.

In 2005, a association expelled a strange “Guitar Hero,” a diversion that let players use feign cosmetic guitars to play along with renouned songs. The “Guitar Hero” games and a follow-up series, “Rock Band,” generated over $3 billion in sales during a strain diversion disturb of a final decade.

After direct for music-playing diversion collapsed, Harmonix returned with a “Dance Central” games, in that players contest by dancing to cocktail tunes. That array sole several million copies.

These days, pronounced Drake, scarcely all of Harmonix’s courtesy is focused on a new “Fantasia” title, that has been underneath expansion for 18 months.

“We have an whole building fundamentally clinging to ‘Fantasia’ right now,” pronounced Drake.

Billy Pidgeon, an eccentric video diversion courtesy analyst, pronounced it is doubtful that “Fantasia” will compare a recognition of “Guitar Hero” or “Rock Band.”

“I unequivocally see that expansion in a stroke diversion difficulty as an curiosity that’s not unequivocally repeatable,” he said. But he pronounced that a diversion does not have to be a million-selling beast strike to be a success; indeed, Pidgeon reckoned that a association could substantially mangle even with sales of about half a million copies.

Pidgeon pronounced that since Microsoft is fervent to get copiousness of new games for a arriving Xbox One, a association might determine to inexhaustible agreement terms that would give Harmonix a larger-than-usual share of diversion revenues.

The initial open proof of “Fantasia: Music Evolved” will take place in mid-June during a E3 video diversion trade uncover in Los Angeles.